# MLB: October 2017 — Welcome to the Postseason **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 1, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735 "2017-10-01T15:14:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 34
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/661 "2017-11-02T00:00:14Z")
Winner take all, starting shortly. Are we ready? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/662 "2017-11-02T00:05:47Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Your calculations don’t take into account the structure of the best-of-five and best-of-seven playoffs. 2-2-1-1-1 v 2-3-2 and 2-2-1 v 2-3, etc. That might have had an effect, too. Tru dat. But that would have been within the eras I defined, so the numbers are OK. I agree that one could break things down further on that basis, but didn’t feel like digging to see when they did those changes. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/663 "2017-11-02T00:07:14Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Winner take all, starting shortly. Are we ready? Does ready to puke count? ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/664 "2017-11-02T00:18:48Z")
Ready? I’m so excited I just can’t hide it about to lose control and I think I like it. Go Astros! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/665 "2017-11-02T00:28:21Z")
We were _ **born ready!!!** _ Signing off until after my nephew’s baseball championship game — hey, that’s two winner take all games tonight for me! > [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Dear Houston Astros, > > This year, the MVP in the World Series will be awarded the recently-renamed Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player award. > > For the love of all that is good and holy, you cannot let that person be a Dodger. Excellent point! > [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > Good luck to your nephew’s team! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/666 "2017-11-02T00:29:27Z")
Aaaaand, there it goes already! 7 pitches, 2 runs, Astros! What channel’s hockey on? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/667 "2017-11-02T00:47:11Z")
It ain’t over until it’s over ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/668 "2017-11-02T00:49:38Z")
McCullers is just throwing the same pitch, over and over, and it’s working. Seager and Bellinger knew what was coming and couldn’t help but flail at it. ETA: McCullers then threw mostly fatballs to Puig and kept missing, eventually hitting him (had Puig dodged it it would have been Ball 4 anyway.) So it’ll be interesting to see if, with Pederson up, he just throws the breaking ball down and in over and over. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/669 "2017-11-02T00:50:53Z")
I swear to God, the hitting coach needs to tell Bellinger to not take the bat off his shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/670 "2017-11-02T00:51:45Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > It ain’t over until it’s over Hell, in this series even when it _is_ over it’s probably not over. ---
**Author:** ![txtumbleweed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@txtumbleweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txtumbleweed)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/671 "2017-11-02T00:58:21Z")
Does this umpire have a definable strike zone? I know the computer generated tracks aren’t perfect but it seems like pitchers can put 4 balls in the same spot and half be strike, half balls. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/672 "2017-11-02T01:11:45Z")
After his last start, I can’t figure out why Darvish got the ball this game. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/673 "2017-11-02T01:16:05Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > After his last start, I can’t figure out why Darvish got the ball this game. If I recall correctly, the Game 3 start by Darvish was the shortest of his career. You had to think he would do better this time out. He didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/674 "2017-11-02T01:24:39Z")
McCullers has hit three batters now in two innings. But he has been lucky in getting out of men on base situations. So far. It’s early. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/675 "2017-11-02T01:26:30Z")
Here comes Kershaw. Personally, I think this is a bad move by the Dodgers. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/676 "2017-11-02T01:27:46Z")
As an aside McCullers’ necklace rocks. Looks like it is electronic the way it flashes. I want one. Where can I get one? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/677 "2017-11-02T01:37:05Z")
McCullers just hit #4 batter. This is ridiculous. I haven’t seen something like this since I watched Ryne Duren(drunk) back in the 1960s. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/678 "2017-11-02T01:57:53Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Here comes Kershaw. > > Personally, I think this is a bad move by the Dodgers. Nothing else is working. If they keep hitting this badly it won’t matter if they put in Ariana Grande. Actually maybe they should have her hit for Bellinger. She’s half a foot shorter than Jose Altuve; if she can lay off the damn inside curveball she’d have a better chance of getting on base. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/679 "2017-11-02T02:31:34Z")
Bellinger finally gets on base. Of course, it’s a fielder’s choice… ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735/680 "2017-11-02T03:40:24Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Here comes Kershaw. > > Personally, I think this is a bad move by the Dodgers. I was wrong. I thought that the Astros would get to Kershaw…but he did exactly what his team needed him to do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-october-2017-welcome-to-the-postseason/797735.md?page=35)